Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.”~ Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice)

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

With God, there’s always an appointed time for things, and when you put Him first, trust in His timing, and keep the faith, miracles happen!

If I had the authority to pick and choose who gets to know Christ as Savior, that would make me God. Thank the one true God that I am not.

The money you are looking for is not in any country, phd or your designer outlook, it is in wisdom. Solomon never prayed for wealth but he asked for wisdom.

Authority could derive from passion, not pieces of paper.

You could always call her secretive, masking her feelings beautifully lest anyone intrude into her inmost realm of hidden thoughts. It was a defense Urmila had evolved since childhood.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

Kill the body and the head will die.

Trees are metaphorical. Their magic is that they bring beauty, comfort, and peace to the land. They celebrate life itself.

Great tests precede great blessings.